al jazeera. and. this is al-jazeera i'm dating you know obligato with a check on your world headlines russia's prison service says opposition leader alexina volley is being moved to a hospital concerned about the volleys health has grown during the last few days the kremlin critic has been on a hunger strike for several weeks protesting against his jailing on what he says are political charges his allies have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal bernard smith has more from moscow. the

prison authorities in russia say alexander valley has been transferred to a prison hospital it's about 90 kilometers away from the penal colony or colony where he's serving 2 and a half year sentence for parole violations they say he's also receiving a victim in therapy by his own consent the valley started his hunger strike on march 31st of this is now day 20 and since then he'd only been drinking water is via his wife visited him last week in prison she said he'd lost a lot of weight he had difficulty speaking he's suffering from spinal problems and he's on the weekend is our eyes said his life was hanging by a thread and a valley supporters are also called for 'd nationwide protests from on wednesday evening they were calling for 500000 people to sign a petition after which they would have these protests there just slightly short of that but because of an avowal knees failing health they believe it's much more

urgently needed to have these protests to bring attention to his circumstances the police service in russia today has warned people that they shouldn't attend those protests on wednesday. india's capital region of delhi will be under a weeklong curfew from monday night as the country battles a record surge and infections nearly 274000 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours and more than 1600 deaths there is concern a new variants identified in india could be driving infections a monitoring group in myanmar is warning the military will continue to torture and murder pro-democracy activists if the international community doesn't act the plea was made after state television broadcast images of 6 detainees it's the u.s. space agency nasa has made history by successfully flying a helicopter on mars the flight is called ingenuity it's powered by solar batteries

and is controlled by a team here on earth it was sent to mars attached to the perseverance rover which touched down in february sarah webb is an astronomer with swinburne university of technology she says the success of the helicopter will help future explorations huge game change i think. across that least able to maneuver it without needing to change the actual planets have been able to fly from one occasion to like haitian will have huge advantages in the next coming decades right now we do have the incredible revisit and the brand new one. the 2020. which they do incredible funny it from the start of it but they aren't able to travel very great distances so when they land they have you know a small region where they go to chapel and if we really want to explore the red planet possibility of past life present microbes and things like that under the

current conditions on the martian surface we're going to need to be able to travel great distances which a helicopter like with absolutely allowed in the. well now for some big news to come out of football and tottenham f.c. in england have announced they have sacked manager joe same arena oh he's only been charged 17 months but has been unable to replicate the success he has had at other clubs and all of this comes amid and another story that has rocked european club football 12 of europe's biggest football clubs say they'll launch a breakaway super league 6 english teams arsenal liverpool chelsea both manchester sides and tottenham have agreed to join fellow european giants real madrid barcelona and ventus will also play in the league the club's mainly foreign owners are being accused of a power grab football governing bodies for a funny way for have threatened legal action witness is next.

tech. programs here. at. the center of the fuse are. you know to make everything less wrinkled. i come from a trapeze family and the last time i performed with my uncle and my sisters and my

mom it was actually one of the saddest days of my life i remember like it was yesterday to the last show and i was actually bawling up there smiling to the audience with tears in my sisters were crying because that was the last time i was going to form with them. but i can't leave show business it's in my blood. when we read the people as they leave i'm standing there with randy and i listen to what the people say and you know i can tell if they are thinking old leader maybe it's time for you to hang up and i don't get that i get

a lot of them letting me know that i'm inspiring. so i know maybe they should have a circus for artists over 50 what do you think. i the reason we have so many retired show people here is because this is where john ringling bros i'm. at one time it was great to have elephants in sarasota county. i mean

i was there in the fifty's when we got television and circus was going to die forever and now this is how many years later to start my dad. and they're funny i'm collecting myself. so i saw my watch list. you're bidding on to a circus collector's plate no. wonder if it has the certificate. of authenticity. now. ladies and gentlemen boys and. i must ask you for the silence as miss jacob is prepared to perform the full somersaults to

a single rope fully releasing the predatory. dolly she did a full flower somersault without a name she's here today to tell a story so you know but there were many times where hands were slipping from the heat to spray sion the group was in there and you could have talked yourself you going to talk yourself because people bought a ticket they going to see showed you cause oh i don't feel like going in now now. and you talk yourself into the new do or you just going to do it. in monaco they have 40 acts from around the world so it's like the oscars of the circus and it's not categorize like animal to acrobatic or it's all 40 action around the world competing so the best actor wins the gold clown 1st

place in 2nd place is the silver cloud so i was. lucky enough to win this over clown in 88 presented to me by prince albert. my uncle taught me a trick that as far as i know there's only been 2 people in the world that have done it and it's a double somersault with a triple twist so it's 5 different things and one feet and i did that in 1999. it's weird though as you get older the time seems to go by quicker you know. you know i have i have a we have

a family friend that when i turned 21 he said enjoy it because from now on the time the years will go by quickly and he was right i mean here i am 52 and it just seems like yesterday i turned 21. what's life like. let's ask let's go and. i can't wait to have dinner with my dad and interest the phone when you see him she seems like you like being home so if you feel good in these teams. feel like you did it in the next day and the day before. this hard to explain the feeling.

here you can swing all the way up here you can touch up there. my baby blah. blah blah good day. and into your c r morning why they're opening night. to day they have started. painting dishonoring no more. no more. everything is changing totally changes well. if i had a chance i would like to make dad in 20 again called top michael sheen i don't blame all of that my big 12 individually you missed when i come to the last tweak

it wasn't in i keep dropping into that one need all the normal and then i will come . it tells me it's over but. anyhow. that's business show patience the show must go on. here when minute of it was beautiful. i have kids that. want this and so i hide it because i don't want it to disappear. and cowher learned that made this.

but they don't make them like this no more this is why it's an empty i've been asked to put it in the museum down there but i don't want to. be selfish . this is probably in 52 this is either 62 or 63 on the way and this is what broke out there and then i come flying i ended up with a. sprained ankle lots of little tiny pieces of block charcoal in my back though because we were on a cinder lot. yeah. how long did it take you to get back up oh i was up the next day. i mean really when you get off on the circuit you have to keep

going. keep going less you got a broken down. don't have 360. doing good. and i know. that. this is like an inventory basically you would have and of course a store so here are the jugglers i have percent and they are all the clowns and then we have the animal it's just becoming a short department because i don't know where to put them and some of the produce i don't want to deal with these people these fanatic people so they don't even hire any anymore and then we have to aerial act and that's a very very big wide range. for people don't understand because anything ariel would be high. flying top single top peace girl

that's a big department all the way to here. this thing started in 691 and the next one was born in 730 and he was a banker and now comes the 1st farm and he was born in 1760 and that's why it all started about out of love and out yes my grandfather yes all the gurlitz and the boys my mother. has myself he has counted in his stomach and. my family are animal people and they are the most situation is becoming so difficult what would be a good performing for dominic what at the alamo should that be i call body should the be dead of all. the top dissonant circus is in jeopardy here so what do

you want for your grandson i really don't know i can't answer this exactly. did you write the elephants to. remember no more and. that's great news uber. is very dramatic. for him this is some problem for all the british this is my. older girls this is our teacher. i think that's been part of bigger than me you know. my mother lives with myself and pedro and as long as we've been home

and off the road from travelling she's with us. you know. it's funny because in good shape were you. here are better. off. i have a big cure for it or is the. whole good for you. yeah trade here yeah.

you're. the reason i'm home now and not performing is because my father has parkinson's and he's very ill and i'm helping my mom take care of him. he was like me just like me he was the catcher you know he was the strongest one of the true and to see him in the world here and now parkinson's is taken its toll pretty to. this is what i usually do it at night after dinner with my parents go to bed i'm not much of a t.v. watcher there are a few shows that i like to watch on t.v. but i i sit down and i put on my music and you know i'm costumes or ideas that i have. but it's tough sometimes you know

when i'm not performing i dreamed about it i'm glad i was a circus performer and even though it doesn't make you rich or enormously famous or at least i'm content and i'm happy about that. that the places i've traveled the people i've met. the you know where i've performed it's it's been an amazing life. and i think that every night i can die happy and peaceful that i did what i enjoyed. it's great it's a great feeling. welcome to you all i'm so glad you came i was really excited about it really wonderful come

right in come right and enter my little studio my little my little wisdom area here come right ahead this is truly you know apartment and actually very obvious with the result a good affordable one came in but i love it dearly because it's just like i want it . you'll notice what i do with the make up i start here. and the cheeks. and i follow my laugh line watch the laugh line. you notice what i'm doing is more to life and you know it's fun doing this get younger look at night. and. my walking came old hand me down my walking cane and my games.

and. i do a little clowning in some of the things here not much of anything but this is my nature i mean i can't help it. i can't get a life and i'm very unhappy.

that when i say we have somebody that's do it aerial work normally by the time they're 40 they're done do an aerial work. when a performer gets to the point where they're having trouble booking where their health won't let them work they have a major transition to make the transition is from what they've done to something new and different but they don't yet want to give up maybe tomorrow they'll get their booking or maybe tomorrow they'll be able to work again. if everybody was honest enough and knows when to quit that would be a good thing then $100.00 less. people say she worked 18 horses and one morning before she came to america she had

24 stallions you know it wasn't done again great but if i would have dragged on and tried to go back and do so with one horse maybe a high school horse that would say she used to do. and. it hurt cried a lot right for yeah. i was all by myself oh my god i died and opened you know but i died.

i want to go a little. too close to the ground. for. those pretty blue males who think that why is it twisting. look underneath it looks pretty level these are actually their rings that i performed on. i stopped doing the rings and i believe it was 2000 and i was already diabetic. and my back was had a herniated disk so that year was all the difficulty and i. had to have back surgery on that disc. it's

a very dangerous act anything you do in the air is dangerous but the rings you know 32 feet high full swing completely letting go you know only hanging on by your fingertips and with my back it was time to. you know. hang it up. teach the kids now though the rings and. and i enjoy it actually i get up and demonstrate and the whole feeling is back. in a while. to look like you know. somebody said i'll give you a job on the road would you go yes. in a heartbeat. in a heartbeat. i do wish that. because i enjoyed traveling with the

circus. whether we were in the mud up to our knees or we were on nice cracks. or whether we were in pouring rain. or not. i mean i i still say that people say. sword ask gets under your feet. i wish i just stayed with the circus and not listen to my mother. i mean my mother said children need an education. so as soon as my one child turned 6 that's when i quit the circus. oh i've done many jobs working after getting off the road i went to work at tropical fish. been doing that for so many years now my job just closed.

so now i'm looking for another job and i have a pet shops are not interested in somebody my age. i've always had $2.00 and $3.00 jobs at a time. i took care of trailer park took care of sick people. some circus people. but i've worked cheap otherwise i would have had money. i don't have money. i have nothing. this is one of the boats are sounding their no logical revolutions in all of this makes our planet pretty good has to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars will make the mitcham in motion many to be mine sure people are just talking about the soldiers if that's going to solve the

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measure to save god their health thank you. both. this is al jazeera i'm dead with a check on your world headlines russian state media is saying kremlin critic alexei navalny is being transferred to a hospital for prisoners his allies have called for demonstrations on wednesday which the kremlin says will be considered illegal the u.s. has warned of consequences if novell the dies in prison earlier the e.u. foreign policy chief said russia is responsible for an avanti and must provide him with medical care very much worried about the health situation and.

yesterday in a statement of behavior the 27 member states hosking to russian authorities to provide. the health care he needs and they have responsible for their safety india's capital region of delhi will be under a week long curfew from monday night as the country battles a record surge in infections nearly 274000 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours and more than 1600 deaths there is concern a new variant identified in india could be driving infections a monitoring group in me and maher is warning the military will continue to torture and murder pro-democracy activists if the international community doesn't act the plea was made after state television broadcast images of 6 detainees u.s. space agency has made history by successfully flying a helicopter on mars the flight is called ingenuity and it's powered by solar

batteries and is controlled by a team here on earth it was sent to mars attached to the perseverance rover which touched down in february. now for some big news to come out of football taught and f.c. in england have announced they have sacked manager jos amory neo he's only been in charge 17 months but has been unable to replicate the success he's had at other clubs are currently 7th in the english premier league and all of this comes amid another story that's rocked european club football 12 of europe's biggest football clubs say they'll launch a breakaway super league 6 english teams including liverpool chelsea and both manchester sides have agreed to join fellow european giants rael madrid barcelona and juventus will also play in the league the club's billionaire owners are being accused of a power grab on the governing bodies fi find you a fan of threatened legal action those are the headlines it's back to witness on al-jazeera.

it's very cruel the system could go. well this is enter the building. this is entered the building. not watching pedro. the way you're looking at. me like that anymore. ah thank you we are. going down memory lane. this is in the very beginning. very very beginning of this track fact. we get that.

all that hair page very. that is that caught me he made the kate talk i have never seen anybody use a cape the way he did that's what sealed the deal is look at that you could really take a look at that beautiful me. this is the softer from sarasota before that hot up as you can see the bridge you know so and that's how dolly and i met kind of when the glue was say i was practicing the sailor circus and dolly was prepped and said a circus and so that's me flying from the class ring i go to the class ring and use the rope ok so when i catch the rope right in the top it was a red mark my mark was there the string would break and i would fall about 20 feet . 2025 feet and then my bungee would stop me and i would be in the floor in 2

seconds you know but one day i was. booked in new york and unfortunately. i couldn't set the record myself there was a horse at liberty act that were performing so my rope and string and everything was set stage left. and so are both mustering up it's a very high swing in the lungs when i jumped. and i grabbed the rope perfect. felt the string break down and the next thing i know i was on my back you know like i was like in shock because this was abnormal i had the rope in my hand i didn't miss the rope my brain was trying to compute what had happened and my ankles that were talking to me and say you're in pain because we're broken but what did happen is they had moved the rope untied the string and i forgot to check the bungee so there

was no nothing to stop me and yeah that was the basic. the how do you say they they they killed the flame. they used to be young and beautiful now i'm just beautiful. concert. circus today is changing a lot because my son chimes people are saying so many things that play a good beach fantasy and it's not clear said they expect an awful lot from. seth lucidly lp. working which to day life i know are. and kind of don't don't get too emplaced with that and you won't because to say 2 months trying not yet c.v.

i knew she did most impossible things i love to watch sexual lay because. every change is. on. its plate and there you have some great performers on there but you don't know who they are. don't have a name. beautiful and entertainment but something. norma has made this and she's made it from a picture and the picture is of my dad and my mom and willie and edelsten had been made in 1948 or 49 and it was her gift to me for what i've done for her they call me for anything that relates to the non circus world the business side

i've been called to go to the funeral home to make final arrangements i've been called about wills and plan giving and trusts and how do i get medicaid and how do i get help for this or how do i get help for that. it started because my mother and father were circus people i respect what they did my mother said help these people. i came home from work the day my job clawed roost. and i see this big sign instead of a proper propertius he had it up for sale and now i don't know what's going to happen and my trailer is 79 feet away too big to move to another trial. and even if it went to another trailer park i cannot

afford the right. guy i haven't seen your of their so. did kathy speak to you about me 1st oh yes you have kathy said yeah my has a problem do you care if i have a car you know i really appreciate what she did for me so thelma has to make a choice of what she's going to do she cannot stay here for ever because the properties for sale and like most of the property up here. the state of florida sent transition we're going from a place where people could come live modestly live in trailers women smart quarters to a place where people come and live in big quarters brand new big quarters. we

want everybody to be the norm i mean my term i like to use is manicured acres we want every town to be manicured so we're the ones make the rules it's not the government where the government so we're the ones that force these issues of we want have we want to control our neighbor who are unable to us with their property because it might affect our property. so we make it difficult for anybody that is a little different a little special be this special negative or special positive show people are special positive but they're special in this transition they don't want to get rid of the trappings of circus so they need a spot where they could go with these trappings and as society gets more and more sophisticated it's harder and harder to find those spots we've charged it down and we've got

a little property up north where we subsidize we subsidize our own at 30 percent. so we've got to ready now wow i mean it's a big property just to have a chance trailers on it it seems like a nice piece of property if they were really nice to have circus people next door tell you i'm going to go test the water go test the water oh that's it yeah good just the water that's city water. she's tasting the water cause she deals with food . so she says what is this water to some. one of us from think is a good for my fish. ok babies. and of course i'd have to have paper to wrap them but i'm not going to wrap my own. as will go into a. whole. lot of. red skelton that's red skelton. didn't even know it why did that go.

swore out or out. lulu. when. i'm. ready doing i was going to come in when you 25 to make the march ok maybe on the outside i just didn't know what you were doing . here we're. really focused on. this

goodness all right here here. there's a new. i mean i see you wore your good the horse training shoes again well it wasn't supposed to be a horse trading i was just looking. yes that's not the right shoes for horse training. but i'm not a horse trainer anymore i will that that's where. i on the advice given by myself and i come in any shoes i want to to find. that's a safety factor because my feet are already broken so many times can't be broken anymore. but. sometimes i get up in the morning something else hurts and so what can i do now that i didn't even do anything. but you work through it. when i

was given the opportunity to perform with dolly since we're both going away were very similar you know our lives it was it was an honor i've been wanting to work with her for years. dolly jacobson is fabulous. if you've never seen were she is a miracle in motion. because she's so beautiful out there. absolutely gorgeous. it took us for a long time to perfect that trick because we couldn't get it in there was the time line where we were too old to do this. like in rehearsals i keep my knee holding

her back as well just for safety but in performance i actually take my knee away so it's a complete just to complete one hold and she's laying on my and my arm. even at the show when i have to control my hand i'm sending my tuxedo nobody sees me running the control of the 3 person act you know. and that really person is so. so important to the act you know they can make or break you. i'm also a funny person when it comes to learning a trick. when i go to see the ring on show and i see girls that have got a lot john it takes it away from me i just and. i enjoy a anticipation of them doing the job perfectly

without a problem. the traveling circus have the facilities for a traveling circus we are. part of sarasota we're part of the community. dollar now we bought it can't we bring to the bank borrowed some money for a used tent and put up a tent and you know if you build it they will come of course it's not true because is it a revival is it a car sales is it a service never knew what it was with no money for advertising there was a learning curve for us but as a nonprofit organization idea was to give back to the community you know really to give back to the circus and to raise the perception of the circus as an art form because young america has a preconceived perception that the circus carnival side show or one that is not

true ok the circus is separate is an art form dishing people work their butts off hours 1000 hundreds of hours to perfect something or beauty that they can display to the audience. or to it's gotten pinion. that you don't. think that. his. sketches are the ones you've done in the past if you look much better than me so i use them absolutely. all the richer than any of.

the the remains from 24 years. yeah. press 20. wow 4 more years it will be 24 and 24 but i did overlap so i did a few years rings answer after. this age that she is in great physical shape strength the beauty. so raise the bar she brings the border that's where it's all you've got to keep going to physically cannot do with every year all i don't know bill mike know you're going to grab people whose hearts and you spew emotion and only an artist can do that if you true artists. start criticizing themselves and once that's my job you know but honestly there's there are

days where you know you question yourself and then there's days that teaches you know you love it so much and you don't look in the mirror and you just feel like you're ageless. long. do you feel that you have to put on makeup on because she is getting older. don't

go there mommy you know. but i mean. i would i will say less is more. this is the only justice and life. doesn't matter who it is going to be big tall short of feds for everybody gotta get old that's very it can only grow old gracefully what about now. are you willing to bet jacket tonight or are you gonna wear the black and white chalk and. red jacket you gotta wear the black and white yeah hold the jacket. well how old are you when that was made for you ok let's see how. 4646 yes in america.

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here. all. week or the. last. there was the fear ok i can save is the fear i think if you have fear you can get 100 percent. fear out of the rain and out of the stages is stuck to what i love that's here. when i enter. during i feel i feel on top. and i don't want that feeling to go away .

the river narin flows through the coldest reaches of cubist on temperatures here

can drop to 20 degrees below 0 this time of year but the driving snow and bitter winter conditions on is enough to keep these men from working on the ice and in the freezing water because the river nile river contains gold meant to villages along the nile river to be panning for gold in the same area for centuries the best time of year to do it is the winter because the river is lower than your in the summer months these tiny little yellow flanks you can see don't look much they were around $50.00 a gram. it's

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america some showers around the yucatan peninsula northern parts of cuba could see wanted to showers from time to time but as i said across the islands it does that lousy fine and dry dry too it will dry all weather coming into southern parts of the u.s. the deep south we got that rain making its way across florida at the moment some cooler air just tucking in across the plains with some snow sinking south. qatar airways and with each other just working in asia and africa there'd be days where i'd be choosing editing my own stories then a refugee camp with no electricity and right now we're confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise because of the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together that's why it is there are so important as we make those connections. to want to i'll just.

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